by Should it close restaurants and all foodservice?
Mercer Island Washington announced a boil-water advisory and closed foodservice establishments.
How do you close a nursing home? Are you going to close schools and hospitals?
Why close restaurants and then advise households that:
Dishwashers can be used if run with the sanitizing/heat cycle and commercial dishwashing detergent. Dishes can be hand washed if rinsed in a diluted bleach solution – one teaspoon household bleach to one gallon of water – and then allowed to air dry?
As to how to wash hands without water, the SaniTwice protocol can be temporarily deployed as used now during water-outages by Clark County schools in Las Vegas. The schools also modify their menu to less risky choices, which is also an option for restaurants.
More information is available at http://www.mercergov.org/News.asp?NewsID=1779
